Internet service restored after day-long outage

CenturyLink investigating core router failure

5:45 AM,
May 8, 2013

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Bulletin Staff

A failure of core routers in CenturyLink's internet service left about a million of the company's digital service line subscribers without service for about nine hours Tuesday. The outage included the Twin Lakes Area.

Jeff Jones, a spokesman for CenturyLink said the cause of the router failure was unknown, but a "port-mortem" examination of the failure is under way.

"We will work 24/7 to find out what happened and to assure it does not happen again," Jones said. "The good news is, the service is back on." ...